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Looks like this was purely a French invention. Sebastien Lenormand, a Frenchman, was the first to demonstrate the principle in 1783. was probably the first person to actually use a parachute for an emergency.

In 1793, Jean Pierre Blanchard, a Frenchman, claimed to have escaped from an exploded hot air balloon with a parachute. However, this was an unwitnessed event.

However, it is reported that the Italians were the first to deliberately drop soldiers behind enemy lines via parachute.

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